I have a friend here that will NOT eat anything that has been microwaved, NOR will she eat anything that has been stored in or cooked or served on anything other than glass. She says the chemicals in the plastics are killing us all. There's another reason for not microwaving things, something about changing the molecular structure of the food itself.
I CC'ed this to the OT group, so we can pick up this discuss over there rather than responding here. Phaewryn http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Special Needs Cat Resources ----- Original Message ----- From: TenHouseCats To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Itchmo Safety Alert: Melamine spiking widespread going on foryears i don't want to minimize this, of course, but my first thought when they were blaming melamine was that if melamine was the problem, we'd probably all be dead anyway.... those of us from the 50s whose parents never fed us on anything BUT melamine once it became popular..... i see in my mind, all the scratches from the steak knives..... all the awful patterns worn off.... and then, the microwave era...... if the scratches on the plates weren't giving us our recommended daily requirement of melamine, once we started fuming them and eating the melange of food and plastic, well....... in my not-even-remotely-humble-opinion, we've all been fooling ourselves for years. some of us knowingly--realizing, to some level, how bad it was, and just accepting there probably wasn't much we could do about it because we were not in a position to be heard--most without any awareness. how many of you remember when we first learned that there rodent feces are allowed in our food, as long as it's in the proper percentage? same with insect bodies.... this is NOT new. it's just taken a population that we seem to care about more than we care about other people for us to stand up and say, "enough." ::::: drags her soapbox over to the calici virus arena:::: MC On 4/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Itchmo Pet Safety Alerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:18:40 -0400 Subject: Itchmo Safety Alert: Melamine spiking widespread going on for years Full details: http://www.itchmo.com/read/melamine-spiking-in-food-widespread-for-years_20070429 We will just let the story speak for itself. No more denials, no more hemming and hawing by the FDA. Time to take massive cautionary action is now. It's not just animal feed anymore. It's not just pet food. It's a crisis. It's been going on for years. Highlights below from the IHT article: Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge boiler vats are turning coal into melamine, which is used to create plastics and fertilizer. But the leftover melamine scrap, small acorn-sized chunks of white rock, is then being sold to local entrepreneurs, who say they secretly mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to artificially enhance the protein level. "It just saves money," says a manager at an animal feed factory here. "Melamine scrap is added to animal feed to boost the protein level." The practice is widespread in China. For years animal feed sellers have been able to cheat buyers by blending the powder into feed with little regulatory supervision, according to interviews with melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here. More at www.itchmo.com Subscribe/unsubscribe: www.itchmo.com
